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SoCalyorkiLvr · 05-15-2005, 03:36 PM

I would also make sure you have nutrical on hand in case of hypoglycemia and that you get an"emergency syringe feeding kit" from your breeder or make one yourself.

This kit should contain a small syringe(3 cc size), baby dry rice cereal, karo syrup, baby food (chicken) in a jar, pedialyte (unflavored), and corn starch. Hopefully, you will not need it but if you do, you will be so thankful! Baby yorkies cannot miss a meal. If they do they can fade very quickly and get low blood sugar which can quickly lead to convulsions and even death. Sometimes there is not time to get to the vet. You would mix 2 tsp of the rice cereal with 1 tsp of the constrach or karo syrup and 2 tsp of the chicken baby food and add pedialute until you get the consistency of a soft baby food which is still fairly liquid and is easy to suck up into the syringe. The baby will need 3 to 5 syringe fulls three or four times a day until it starts eating on it's own again. You will also give pedialyte by syringe if the puppy is not drinking to prevent dehydration.

This is especially important for tinies (little yorkies who maure to les than 4 lbs as an adult.) This is of less a concern if you have an older or bigger puppy.

I don't mean to scare you. This will probably not happen to you but you sound like you want to be prepared so I would have wanted this when I got my first puppy.

I also like to have the puppy milk they sell in the pet stores for use when a puppy's mother won't feed them. Most really like it and I have had mine eat that when they would nothing else and it really pus the weight on. Generally, they say that once a puppy is weaned you shouldn't give it "milk" becuase it's digestive system changes and it cannnot handle it well, but I think untila pup is 16 weeks a little of this milk is okay to encourge an appetite. JMHO!

05-15-2005, 03:36 PM	#4
SoCalyorkiLvr BANNED! Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 8,246	I would also make sure you have nutrical on hand in case of hypoglycemia and that you get an"emergency syringe feeding kit" from your breeder or make one yourself. This kit should contain a small syringe(3 cc size), baby dry rice cereal, karo syrup, baby food (chicken) in a jar, pedialyte (unflavored), and corn starch. Hopefully, you will not need it but if you do, you will be so thankful! Baby yorkies cannot miss a meal. If they do they can fade very quickly and get low blood sugar which can quickly lead to convulsions and even death. Sometimes there is not time to get to the vet. You would mix 2 tsp of the rice cereal with 1 tsp of the constrach or karo syrup and 2 tsp of the chicken baby food and add pedialute until you get the consistency of a soft baby food which is still fairly liquid and is easy to suck up into the syringe. The baby will need 3 to 5 syringe fulls three or four times a day until it starts eating on it's own again. You will also give pedialyte by syringe if the puppy is not drinking to prevent dehydration. This is especially important for tinies (little yorkies who maure to les than 4 lbs as an adult.) This is of less a concern if you have an older or bigger puppy. I don't mean to scare you. This will probably not happen to you but you sound like you want to be prepared so I would have wanted this when I got my first puppy. I also like to have the puppy milk they sell in the pet stores for use when a puppy's mother won't feed them. Most really like it and I have had mine eat that when they would nothing else and it really pus the weight on. Generally, they say that once a puppy is weaned you shouldn't give it "milk" becuase it's digestive system changes and it cannnot handle it well, but I think untila pup is 16 weeks a little of this milk is okay to encourge an appetite. JMHO!